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R. CLINTON. Device for Applying Color to the Eyelashes.

No. 221,719. Patented Nov. 18, 1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD OLINTON, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

IMPROVEMENT IN. DEVICES FOR APPLYING COLOR TO THE EYELASHES.

Specification forming part ofLetters Patent No. 221,719, dated November 18, 1879 application filed 7 April 10, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD CLINTON, of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented an Improvement which I call the Dramatic Eyelash-Stencil, to be used in the toilet as a ready means to prevent blackening the skin while applying coloring-matter to the eyelashes when they are of a light or undesirable color, of which the following is a specification.

To use the device reference will be had to the drawings, where Figure 1 represents a perspeetive view of ,the-stencil, and Fig. 2 a side view of the same.

The letter A designates the whole, and the letter B a slot through which the eyelashes are brought and kept during the operation of coloring them.

The eyelash maybe brought into the slot B in various ways, one of which is to place the stencil against the eye while open and toward the under lash, when it will readily pass in, after which close the eye, when the upper one will enter, after which they are brushed with a brush prepared with coloringmatter, and in this way they may be made of any desired color.

The device is of especial use to professional actors, where the toilet frequently is made in haste, and the usual mode of coloring the eyelash is liable to discolor the skin, which has been previously made up, and by its use much annoyance and vexation are prevented.

The article is made of glass-preferable to other material, on account of readily perceiving when all the hairs of the lash are in the opening. It can also be made of horn, tortoise-shell, gutta-percha, metal, or other substances.

The form of the article will vary according to the size of the eye of the person using it. It will generally be spherical, with the pendent handle to be held between the thumb and finger of the left hand.

I claim As a new article of manufacture, the eyeshield A, provided with the slot B, substantially as described, and for use in applying coloring to the eyelashes.

RICHARD CLINTON.

VVitnessus:

EUGENE D. WHITE, HORACE GILTNER. 

